Russian Ministry of Defence Denies Complicity in Shooting down of the Boeing 777

The Russia’s Ministry of Defence declares that on July 17 the means of Air Defense of the Russian Armed Forces did not operate in the place of the crush of the Boeing 777.

The statement of the Ministry was made public by Russia-24 Channel, Censor.NET informs. "The airplanes of the Russian Air Forces in Russian regions that border the Donetsk region did not carry out any flights on July 17 this year," the statement says. "This information is completely confirmed by the means of objective control. We draw your attention that the Boeing 777 was flying outside of the coverage zone of means of the Russian Air Defense. It was in the air space of Ukraine under control of her system of organization of air traffic," the declaration of the Russian Ministry of Defense states. The Russian ministry has called upon international community to carry out 'thorough maximally open investigation of this air catastrophe'.

It was informed earlier that since the beginning of the anti-terrorist operation, anti-aircraft complexes of the Ukrainian army were not applied, there was not a single launch of guided missiles. In the Donetsk region, the passenger airplane heading to Kuala Lumpur was shot down. 280 passengers and 15 crew members died. Among perished - 154 Dutch, 27 Austrians, 23 Malaysians, 11 Indonesians, 6 British, 4 Germans, 4 Belgians, 3 Philippians and 1 Canadian.

Meanwhile, Russian media and terrorists practically simultaneously informed that the transport plane AN-26 of the Air Forces of Ukraine had been shot down. Later, the Service of Security of Ukraine established involvement of the terrorists to the crush of the civilian airplane. Terrorists in eastern Ukraine have received weapons that can shoot airplanes at the high altitude. This is how the airplane AN-26 was shot down earlier, when it was flying at the altitude of 6000 meters.

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